- Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
programs and libraries. Git can be used without most of them by adding
- the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or
+ the appropriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or
config.mak file.
- "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
- "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net.
- - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed
- for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull").
+ - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run some scripts needed
+ for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "request-pull").
- "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the
features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p",
use English. Under autoconf the configure script will do this
automatically if it can't find libintl on the system.
- - Python version 2.4 or later (but not 3.x, which is not
- supported by Perforce) is needed to use the git-p4 interface
+ - Python version 2.7 or later is needed to use the git-p4 interface
to Perforce.
- Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
clone two separate git-htmldocs and git-manpages repositories next
to the clone of git itself.
- It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are
- buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs
- the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch
+ The minimum supported version of docbook-xsl is 1.74.
Users attempting to build the documentation on Cygwin may need to ensure
that the /etc/xml/catalog file looks something like this:
projects / platform / upstream / git.git / blobdiff